This helmet makes me want to get a car and start running over cyclists. Canedo Studio offers this razor helmet with some kind of knock-off integrated Oakley eyewear and what looks like zero padding. Smashing your head into the concrete now adds the danger of plastics embedded in your brain along with a little blunt trauma. I suppose you take the helmet off when it gets dark?

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The lack of new construction projects is bad news for my architect and builder friends but good news for people who sneak into construction sites and turn their bikes into wrecking balls. Expanded pool skating and construction site fun is a logical extension of the economic downturn. Related only in the sense that it’s a truly awesome photo, I also bring you this.

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There might not be any mountains, avalanches, or religious fundamentalists two clicks away from jihad in Minnesota, but that doesn’t mean camping lacks the excitement of so many more popular states in the western half of the country. The last of six men involved in a Boundary Waters Canoe Area shooting spree plead guilty to terrorizing campers with an ‘assault-style’ rifle back in 2007.

The teen admitted in court to the crimes but said he didn’t recall details of the night, saying he drank several beers while motoring around Basswood Lake with his friends.

That night sounds awesome except for the whole shooting-at-campers thing.

Olympus will begin selling this Stylus 500 WP waterproof camera for $200 this spring. It’s safe up to 3 meters deep, so it’s not made for SCUBA diving but would probably be okay for doing the dishes. It has a 10 megapixel image sensor, 3x optical zoom lens, and 2.5 inch LCD screen. Hopefully it still works in spring when I go back to the ski resort to look for it where I dropped it 3 months earlier.

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You can pick up a single-filter coffee brewer for about $4 at any coffee shop, so when GSI rolls one out for $24 it better automatically add Baileys to my eye-opener. These GSI Java Drips come with reusable cloth filters, flexible filter cups that can be crushed into a backpack, and a PBA-free cup that you’ll never quite be able to wash the coffee smell out of. The GSI Coffeemaker will be out this spring in two sizes.